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Visually Cued Instruction

Nola Marriner, Ph.D.

Rationale:
Quill (1995) "The children's difficulty with social communication is not an unwillingness to share information, but an impaired ability to extract relevant information from the social context and/or recall "what to say." Grandin (1991) " All my thinking is visual, I have almost no verbal thought!" Sacks (1995) Reflecting on his interview with Temple Grandin: "All autistic, are intensely visual thinkers, like her. If this was true, was it I wondered, more than a coincidence: Was Temple's intense visuality a vital clue to her autism?'

Definition:
"Visually cued instruction involves the use of pictographic and written language as instructional supports in both structured and natural learning contexts." Quill (1995) p10. Visually cued instruction can be systematically utilized to teach communication, comprehension of spoken language and to provide predictability and structure.

 

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